[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 56 (Wednesday, April 13, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petitions and memorials were laid before the Senate and 
were referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-144. A joint resolution adopted by the Legislature of 
     the State of Nevada memorializing the State of Nevada's 
     petition to the United States Congress calling for a 
     convention of the States for the purpose of proposing an 
     amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to the 
     Committee on the Judiciary.

                     Senate Joint Resolution No. 2

       Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of Nevada, 
     jointly, That this legislature respectfully petitions the 
     Congress of the United States to call a convention for the 
     purpose of proposing the following article as an amendment to 
     the Constitution of the United States.

                             ``Article _''

       ``Section 1. No provision of this Constitution, or any 
     amendment thereto, shall restrict or limit any state in the 
     apportionment of representation in its legislature.
       ``Section 2. The judicial power of the United States shall 
     not extend to any suit in law or equity, or to any 
     controversy relating to apportionment of representation in a 
     state legislature.
       ``Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it 
     shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution 
     by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
     within seven years from the date of its submission.'' Now, 
     therefore, be it
       Resolved, That if Congress shall have proposed an amendment 
     to the Constitution identical with that contained in this 
     resolution prior to January 1, 1965, this application for a 
     convention shall no longer be of any force or effect; and be 
     it further,
       Resolved, That a duly attested copy of this resolution be 
     immediately transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate of the 
     United States, the Clerk of the House of Representatives of 
     the United States and to each member of the Congress from 
     this State.
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       POM-145. A petition from a citizen of the State of Texas 
     relative to citizenship and sovereignty; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations.
       POM-146. A petition from a citizen of the State of Texas 
     relative to the enacting of laws; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.

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